Example sentences for: banished

How can you use “banished” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Democrats, banished from the White House, learned to temper their ambitions.

  • Plato, he proclaims, "was wrong when he banished the poets.

  • The major surprise of Degas' photographs is that the theatricality and staginess so resolutely banished from his paintings flooded into his photographs.

  • In just five years, Carey and his allies have almost banished corruption from a union that was filthy to its bones.

  • He also introduced an inspired system of “ostracism” under which any public servant who was voted inept, tyrannical, or corrupt by the citizenry was banished from Athens for ten years, though he was allowed to keep his property.


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